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Cjt Constrbatik
JOStrH A EEU.T, EDITOR XXD FEOF&IETOK.
IL'COXNELSYLLLE, OHIO
Friday, Feb. IS, ISTO.
ENLARGED.
THE CONSERVATIVE AN EIGHT
COLUMN PAPER—THE LARGEST
DEMOCRATIC PAPER EVER PUBLISHED
IN MORGAN COUNTY—
CONTAINS MORE READING MATTER
THAN ANY PAPER EVER
PUBLISHED IN THE COUNTY.
Had it not been that sickness in
terfered with our arrangements, we
nboold have had an article under
the above heading in oar last week's
itsne ; and, deeming this apology
sufficient for sot mentioning the
enlargement of our paper at that
time, we will ask the attention of
the public to this article.
Something over three years ago,
wLen the attempts of various par.
ties to publish, with success, a Dem
ocratic paper in this Cot tit y had
proved lailures ; when the people
had lost all confidence, it soenied,
in the ability of any one to carry
on this business successfully; when.
if a man paid bis subscription in ad
vauce, he was very fearful that be
would never receive his full com
pliment of papers ; when, in fact,
"suspension" was confidently looked
for after the termination of a three
month's existence ; nnder these cir
cnmstinces w undertook the pub
lication of the CoJisiRYATivi, then
a small, eix-colnmn paper.
We kept this six-column edition
going for about eighteen or twenty
months, when we became satisfied
that it was best to embark in what
is called the "Co-operative plan of
publishing a country Newspaper,
and enlarged the paper. We done
to, making onr paper a seven-col
umn one. . The seven-column edu
lion was last week superceded by
the present eight-column ote ; and
we cow feel that our paper is such a
one as will be aVIe to compete suc
cessfully against any country news,
paper in this section of Ohio. It m
larger than any Democratic paper
ever published in Morgan county,
and it contains more rending mat
ter than any paper of any kind that
was ever published in the same ;
and it is also neatly and plainly
printed. We hope that the Demo
crats of Morgan will no make a
united effort toward giving the Con
stRVATrvi the full strength of their
support. There are enough of them
to make it a paying and flourishing
institution, it they will but come
forward, manfully, and give their
aid. The time has passed when any
one need fear that the paper will
not be kept up, as its patronage is
now sufficient to sustain it, and is
steadily growing ; but, whilo tbis is
true, the Democracy should remem
ber that the greater its patronage
the greater will be the improve
ments made in it, and the greater
will be iU influence. Democrats
should, also, remember that there
are more ways than ono to sustain
a newspaper, and we desire here to
remind them of one very good way.
Here in Morgan county, we have a
great many Democrats who patron
ize Eepublicac lawyers, when they
have any legal business that needs
to be attended to. These lawyers,
when not socially instructed to the
contrary, always take their legal
advertising to the paper of their po
litical faith, ow, we ask Demo
cratic litigants to always be particu
lar to leave their orders with the
Eepublican attorneys, w'aen they
employ them, tnat the advertising
be taken to the Consebvativz of
fee. By 60 doing you will aesifet
greatly in sustaining your paper.
We close this article in the hope
and belief that the Coxsirvative,
as now published, will give univer
sal satisfaction.
Political.
Another—Nomination to Fill
the United States Supreme
Bench Vacancy.
Under date of February 10th,
"Mack" writes from Washington, as
follows :
"Tho White House Gift Enter
prise would be much less objection
able to the people, much less harm
ful to the country, if its contribu
tions were paid more promptly if
the drawings took place more fre
quently, and tho prizes were awar
ded with greater punctuality. But
this thing of letting it drag its slow
eourse along through the 6pace of a
year or more, and allowing long,
dreary months to intervene between
the donation aad the ofike, is an in
tolerable bore not alone to the un
fortanate contributor, whom it
keeps in tbe atraight jacket of anx
ious expectancy, but to the country
generally, whoso people are inter
ested moro or less m the patronage
of tbe Administration, to the extent
f seeing it fitly bestowed. Who
would have thought 15a Grant's
magnificent villa at Xog Branch
would come into- consideration at
this late day to decide tbe claims of
rival candidates for tbe vacant seat
cn the Supreme Benck Yetitbaa
done bo. The decision has been
made in favor of the gentle-nan who
was conspicuous in getting up that
donation.
BRADLEY.
The Hon: Mr. Bradley was the
first to conceive the brilliant idea of
making General Grant a summer
citizen of JsTew Jersey ; and the first
to 6uggcsi the snhstantir.l gift which
has einoe accomplished that great
purpose. Months have rolled a-
round since that time months of
anxiety not unmixed with doubt
and fear to Mr. Bradley. The star
of hope has burned dim at times,
and, perhaps, he has often wished
his labor and his money back. But
now he has hi reward. Ho feels
that the investment was a very
gottd one.
On the day before the nomination
of Mr. Bradley I met a Republican
Senator who had jast been visiting
the White House to urge the claims
of another candidate. He seemed
in an unusually bad humor, and be
fore I had said a word to him about
Grant or the Administration he
commenced a promiscuous damning
of things m general. I asked him
what was the matter. Oh. noth
ing," said he, "only I wish Grant
would pay off his debts some other
way than by nominations to the
Supreme Bench." He then pro
ceeded to state that when he enter
ed the President's privata room he
found ex-Governor Ward, of New
Jersey, there ; tl.at Grant was whit
tling a stick and smoking, and that
he and Wara were talking about
that Long Branch property; that
Grant had asked Ward how much
he thought it was worth ; that Ward
6a:d no didn't know, but he hoped
Grant wouldn't sell it. "No." said
Grant, "I don't think 1 will sell it.
It's a very nice piece of property."
"The nicest in the State of New Jer
sey,, said Ward, "and you'd better
hold on to it. It's getting better
and better every day."
I couldn't exactly understand
what all this had to do with the
Supreme Bench, for uptothistime
I had not beard Mr. Bradley even
named so I asked what the con
nection was. "Oh, it had a d n
sight to do with it," said the exasp
erated Radical. "Ward has come
on here to get Bradley, of New Jer
sey, appointed, and I infer from the
way they were talking that ho had
succeeded."
The next day Bradley's nomina
tion was sent to the Senate, and
meeting my Republican friend in
the Senate lobby I reminded biraof
our talk on the avenue, and said he
was right in his guess about the ob
ject and success of Ward's v.sit
"Of course I was," said he, "and I
wish you'd expose the thing." "I'll
do it," eaid I, "but it won't co any
good. One-half of the people in the
Republican party have determined
to believe nothing injurious to Gen.
Grant, and the other half are al
ways ready to be persuaded that
what would be a crime in another
President is a virtue in Grant."
"However," said 1. "I'll make a par
agraph about it" And so I have."
The Legal Tender Act.
The Cin. Enquirer says : "Chief
Justice Chaso and a majority of the
Supreme Court of tbe United States
have decided that the Legan Tend
er Act, sd far as it dates backward
and applies to contracts beforo its
passage, is unconstitutional. Of
tbis we never had a doubt. This
objection was urged against the
law at the. time with much force by
Mr. George H. Pendleton and oiher
Democratic Congressmen. But it
has wiped out most of the indebt
edness existing previous to that
time. What can be done about it 7
Have the parties interested a right
to sue and recover the balance due
them in gold ?
By a parity of reasoning, it fol
lows that if a contract bo made pay
able in gold beforo tbe war if can
not be paid in legal tenders alter
the passage of that act ; that a con
tract made in legal tenders can not
be enforced in gold. The Constitu
tion says that no law shall be pass
ed impairing the obligations of a
contract. Therefore tbe contract
made to legal tenders for the bonds
should be paid in legal tenders at
the value the latter possessed whon
the contract was made."
"WASHINGTON SOCIETY."
Senator Pomeroy is actively get
ting up a committee for the abolii-
lion of abuses about the Capital. If
it carries out its work it will abol
ish Pomoroy himself. A temper
ance society for the women of the
Capital would not bo the .'east ap
propriate measure this season: A
scone at a late reception, at the
house of as ultra fast political peo
ple either, was as follows, or suffi
ciently near it : Wife of a money
ed committeeman, in a biisr-iul Btate,
enters the punch-room on her hus
band's arm. A Radical politician
passing, sho greets him : "Say,
Charley, won't you drink some
champagne in my ahoe ?" Radical
politician blushes dangerously.
Husband, appeali ngly : "Mvdear,
I think the carriage must be ready
hv ihifi Lima " Such things hanoen
ia New York at the BaI d Artistes ;
here they are iiiCiaents oi-wasa-iugton
Society." Correspondence
New York fTorld.
A "Thomas Cat" in Congress!
During the late recess of Con
gress, tho efficient Sergcant-at-arms
of the Senate made the fearful dis
covery that an aged Thomas Cat
had possessed itself of an air pass
age under the floor of tho Senate.
Here was something to agitato the
gipantic intellect of the -official.
Whut I have a livo cut under tho
floor ot the Senate during executive
Hcssion ? It was dreadful I Efforts
were immediately made to persuade
Thomas out. But the knowing old
cuss would not be persuaded. They
tried strategy. Tempting meats,
in the shape of bash, from a cheap
boarding house, were placed at the
opening. Thomas knew all about
that, and declined. Ho knew that
if be ate, a devil of a bill would be
presented immediately. Then
brimstone was resorted to. They
burned large .quantities et the op
ening, but a cat that has breathed
the air of Congress in the galleries
laughs at brimstone. Some sugges
ted that the Vice President should
try and smile him out. At last, Mr.
French constructed a dead fall of
Congressional Globes. Poor Thom
as saw nothing in the Congression
al Globes. Nobody ever did. He
entered and was killed I The Globe
did somegood 1 Let it be record
ed ! It killed a cntl Donn Piatt-
From the Zanesville Signal.
"Lower And Lower, As We
Go On."
It is a conventionality with cer
tain of our Radical i-oternporaries
and fellow-citizens to refer to eve
rything Democrutio as 4low,,r "vul
gar," &.C. A great many wc-tikwill-ed
people are the slaves of this false
sentiment, being afraid to think
and vote independent of those who
assume to control their political ac
tion by mcns of social or other in
fluences. This insolent assumption
of saperiority or caste on the part
of these people has very poor in
stances of development in the pulit
ical world. Its latest crownng
piece. President Grant, is thus allu
ded to by the Washington corres
pondent of a leading Radical journ
al, with reference to Granl'n life at
Long Branch. last summer, and the
late imbroglio of a portion of his
family in the gold market :
"Fafit men, fant women and fast
horses make a horrible nightmare
one regret to see revived. 1 don't
place much show by official dignity,
but we do want a little senso of
propriety in tho agents we have
honored with the highest offices in
the gilt of the people. And in this
respect the Executive Mansion now
hccms to be fated. It seems to sink
lower and lower as we go cn. We
breathed easier when the inebriat
ed Andrew could no longer cling to
the iron railing in front and address
the rabble bj torch light, while the
American people blushed in shame
at the exhibition. We turned to
the silent, quiet soldier for relief,
and now find tho Fisk-Gould-Ccr-bin
crowd. But I do not care to
dwell upon the subject."
The Negro vs. Foreign Born
Citizens.
While the most reckless legisla
tion is going on, conferrig upon all
the old negro cotton-pickers of the
South the right to vote and hold
office, a Radical plan is on foot, with
a good prospect o! success, to dis
franchise a large part of the for
eign-born element. It is ured up
on Congress to amend tho natural
ization laws so that only United
States Courts, few in number, and
which meet .but twice a year. can
ismic certificates of naturalization.
There are but two United State
Courts in Ohio. How many poor
foreigners would be able to come
from the interior of tho State, and
spend a hundred dollars or so, in
onler to get their certificates,
which can now be obtained within
a few minutes, is, any court of re
cord ? Tho object, and the sole ob
ject, of those who propose to change
the law, is to throw obstacles in the
way of naturalization that will, in
a large degree, defeat its aims. An
increase of the time required, from
five to ten years, would hardly pro
duce more disastrous results to the
applicants for their papers. It
would be, however, far more hon -
est and manlr. How will the Ger
man Republicans reliuh this scheme
to put "a lion in tho path" of the
citizenship of their countiymen ?
Cin. Enq.
A Hard Blow at Radicalism.
This 13 the way the New York
Herald strikes from the shoulder
sometimes : "Tho Boston Trans-
script ochoes the yelp of Harper's
Weeklr, that General Robert E.
Lee should not be treated with the
'respect due to his own private
character.' If every Radical mem
ber of Congress sbonld be treated
with respect due his private char
acter, it might be weighed in scales
so diminutive that they cou'td be
nlaced on iho Doint of a cambric
needle whittled down to the little
point of nothinz."
"It's pone where the woodbine
twmeth," is becoming the answer
in Washington to the inquiries as to
whut becomes of moneys alleged to
have been used in carrying lobby
joot. .
The Death of Mr. Hoag.
The number ot honest Democrats
in Congress is so few that thedeuth
of Mr. Truman II. Hoag, from tbe
Toledo district of Ohio, is of no or
dinary importance. He was one of
the six Democrats elected in 18C8,
under our unequal and grossly un
fair partisan apportionment, to the
House. He was elected in a Repub
lican district, owing to bis personal
strength and to the general unpop
ularity of his competitor, tbe noto
rious and corrupt Jim. Ashley, since
Governor ot Montana. We fear
that a Republican will now be cho
sen in his place. Ha was fifty-fonr
years of age, and was a native of
Onanddga county. New York, ne
is spoken of in tho highest terms
by all who knew him, irrespective
of party. Enq.
Attorney Genera! Hoar seems
to have contracted a prejudice a
gainst all carpet-bag Congressmen
since his defeat tor the Supreme
Ben;h by their votes. At a public
party the other evening he was ac
costed by a pot-son by the name of
sawyer, who is permitted by the
grace of a nero Legislature and
Federal bayonets to hold a seat in
the Senate of the United States.
The offered courtesy wan bluntly
refused by tho Yankee Attorney,
however, with tho significant re
mark, "Well, I see South Carolina
and Massachusetts have resumed
their old relation ol hostility."
There is a bit of philosophy to be
drawn from tho observation which
is worth making note of. The "old
elation of hostility" of these two
States may be put down as chronic.
They originated in the meddling of
Massachusetts people with what did
not concern them to-wit : the civ
il institutions of other States ; and
their last manifestation, on the
South Carolina side, arose from an
attempt to impose a carpct-bng
Judge upon a district that did n.t
want him. If Massachusetts could
colonize South Carolina to-morrow
Irom her own population, the "old
relations of hostility" would re-appear
within a week ; for the inter
ests of the two States are at war,
and the colonists would find them
selves at once compelled to resist
the selfish, aggressive policy of
their friends who remained behind.
Enq.
tST It seems that Chicago has
woo the championship in the matter
of divorces. Ir.dinna is, in popular
belief, accounted the peculiar Para
diseor, rather, the Mecca of "in
compatible" married people ; but
surely Illinois will givo Indiana a
hard race for tho "honors." In a
single count'" including Chicago,
no less than 723 divorce suits were
brought during the year 18C9, and
such was the speed of "justice,"
which, when divorces are at stake.
looses its title of slow-footedness,
that no less than 596 (or two out of
every three cases) were secured.
Taking this basis and reckoning up
what the divorces through the
country probably nnmber, let us
consider whether the lime has not
come for a national divorce law,
which shall end th:s long catalogue
of divorce suits, put a stop to the
disgraceful conflict of State laws
and divorce jurisdictions. Bat it is
not only in Indiana and Chicago
that this state of affairs exists. Th
States of New York aad Ohio are
quite as bad ; and the license of di
vcrce is becoming a national dis
grace and a national evil, only less
brutal thaii the tolerauce of Utah
Polygamy. Chicago Courier.
8. Donn Piatt (Radical), writ
ing of tho 530,000 appropriation by
Congress ostensibly to feed the poor
of Washington city this winter, but
really as a corruption fund to carry
the next municipal election there
for the present Radical office hold
ers by negro votes, says :
"It would bo far better if they
would try and pay some of our just
debts. I am told that there is a law
upon the statute book prohibiting
nny citizen of a State, lately In re
volt, from being paid for property
taken by our soldiers during the
late war.
"That's repudiation for yon, and
I have not heard one shriek from
my honorable friend Horace Gree
ley. I know of a loyal woman, for
merly of Cincinnati, and lately of
Virginia, who had her possessions
swept clean by our soldiers, the of
ficers assuring her that they would
6ee to the repayment."
89 We do not te a Republican
paper which interposes the leant
objection to the bill of Senator Sher
man, who proposes to release the
bondholder fron. his present liabil
ity to be taxed by tho Federal gov
ernment on his bonds, and to make
a new contract with him, guaran
teeing exemption in the future.
Tbe Radical press seem lobe all in
the interest of the bondholding
class. They would tax heavily ev
rything but them.
A Georgia paper put th following
complimentary headlines over Goven
or Bullock's message: "Bullock's toes
sage; A Libel on tbe people; lie is a Ly
ing Hypocrit, and a Cowardlj Conspi
rator; He Seeks to Coverhis Rascalities
under the cloak of Fealty to Radical
ism; His Unblushing Effrontery is in
keeping with bis Yena'itj ,'
Select Miscellany.
Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker and a
Suspicious Old Lady.
Mrs. Dr. Walker, having occasion re
cently to pass up the Missouri riven
was interviewed at New Madrid by tbe
editor of the Record, and in the course
of the conversation Mary related the
following amusing incident of her war
experience in Georgia :
I frequently rode outside our lines
and visited the farm houses, where I
found much destitution among the wo
men. The men were generally absent
in the Confederate army, or had fled at
our approach. I administered to a
great many sick among those destitute
Georgians. On one occasion I called
at the house of an old lady, who was
sick, and had quite a pretty young
daughter living with her. I prescrib
ed for the old lady and furnished her
with medicine and some needed deli
cacies, and gave her great and speedy
relief. At her request I remained all
night, and there being no vacant bed
in the house, slept with the daughter.
Soon after I was called upon to visit a
very sick young man in the same
neighborhood. By proper medical
treatment and attention he was soon
convalescent, and I suddenly became
very fn- us in that neighborhood.
Ezaggera'ed accounts of my skill and
learning were noi&cd abroad, and
reached the ears of the dd lady just
mentioned. Not long after I was ov
ertaken by night outside of the lines,
and called upor. the old lady for ano
her night's entertainment. To my
surprise, she seemed reluctant and
hesitating, and then said :
"Look here, I'm afeared of you ; I'm
afeared to let you sleep here with my
daughter again, tor I'm afeared you
ain't a woman ; I don't believe any
woman could know as much about doc
toring folks as you do."
I tried to disabuse her mind of such
an impression, but she only shook her
head and said, "I'm afeared I'd rath
er not."
At length I unfastened my hair and
shaking it out upon my shoulders,
said :
'Look here, did you ever see a man
have such hair as that ? Is not that a
woman's hair ?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the old wo
man, "folks has got a curious way of
fastening hair on their head 9 in these
days, and maybe its just fastened on
there. I'd rather not let you sleep
with my daughter any more. You
know too much for a woman."
I tried other means with better suc
cess, and greatly relieved, the old lady
again put me in her daughter's bed.
Longevity—The Oldest Man in
Oho.
Cor. Wooster Republican.
Mr. Editor: You were under a
slight mistake in your last issue in an
nouncing the death of Mr Sweick of
Ashland county. You say he was aged
98 years, and was the oldest man in
Ohio. That I might know how much
you were mistaken, I visited Mr. John
Folgate, of Jefferson, Wayne county,
since I saw your notice, lie informed
me that he had lost his family record,
but that he was born in March, 176.
and would be 105 years old in next
March. That would make him about
seven years older than Mr. Sweick
was M r. Fo'gate said he was too old
to be in the army of 1812 ; that he vo
ted for .General Wellington at his first
and second elections as President, and
has voted at every Presidential elec
tion since, voting successively the o'd
Whig and Republican tickets.
I found him making a whipstock.
He had a number of others finished
and a lot of ax-handles standing in his
room, which helately made. He makes
a good ax handle yet, and up to the
last five or six years he was in the ha
bit of making weekly trips on foot to
Wooster with a load of ax-handles or
hay forks, and would return home be
fore 6oroe of his neighbors were out of
bed, having walked about nine miles.
He says he was always an early riser,
and when a young man followed wag
ons, and would be off for Baltimore
with his team before other teamsters
were up He was then in the habit of
taking a morning dram, but for many
years has used no intoxicating drink,
nor tobacco in any form, I have known
him about forty years and never heard
of a fault laid to his charge. He has
for many years been a faithful, exem
plary Christian, and a member of the
Evangelical Church. His mind 6hows
but little of the pressure of years. His
sight is a liule dim and his ear some
what dull of hearing ; but he is very
cheerful and converses freely ; and is
willing o live on, but is waiting pa
tiently the will of the Divine Vaster to
take a transfer to the Church triumphant.
Cor. Wooster Republican. Fruit as Anti-Dyspeptics.
It is often remarked that apples eat
en raw are the best anti-dyspeptics to
be found. Then is it not an astonish
ing thing that wi h all the apples and
other fruit with which America now a
t'cunds, we are almosf a nation of dys
peptics. But if we consider how nine
tenths of 'he apples are eaten we will
cease to be astonished.
Who ever thinks of putting a dish of
apples on the table as a part of the
meal, though the cellar may be full of
rich mellow fruit? Sometimes they
may be brought on with the dessert,
but even that is seldom. They are
sometimes eaten directly afterward,
while the stomach is already burdened,
or between meals, when it needs time
to clear itself and have rest, then fruit
is oftcner a curse than a blessing.
The health of the nation will never be
improved by the use of fruits till we
learn to eat tbem as a part of our every
day mea's.
Philadelphia has just broken up a
predatory band, known among tho
members as "The Forty Thieves,"
who had lor ''Queen" tho daughter
of a preacher in Germantown, who
was also a Missionary to India.
Popular Errors.
To think the more a man eats the
fatter and stronger he will become.
To believe that the more hours child
ren sudy the faster they learn. To!
conclude that, if exercise is good, the
more-violent it is the more good is
done, 'lo imagine that every hour ta
ken from sleep is an hour gained. To
act on the presumption that the small
est room in the house is large enough
to sleep in. To argue that whatever
remedy causes one to feel immediate
ly better is good for the system, with
out regard to more ulterior effects. To
eat without an appetite ; or to contin
ue to eat after it has been satisfied,
merely to gratify the taste. To eat a
hearty supper for the pleasure exper
ienced during the brief time it is pass
ing down the throat, at the expense of
a whole night of disturbed sleep and
a weary waking in the morning.
Driving Boys From Home.
Mothers who are disturbed by the
noise and untidiness of boys at home
must be careful, lest, by their reproa
ches, they drive their children from
home, in search of pleasure elsewhere.
"There are those balusters all finger
marks again," said Mrs. Cary, as she
made haste with a soft linen cloth to
polish down the shining oak again.
"George," she said, with a flushed face,
as she gave the cloth a decided wrench
out of tbe basin of suds, "if you go up
these stairs again before bedtime you
shall be punished V
"I should like to know where I am
to go ?" said George, angrily. "I can't
stay in the kitchen, I am so in the
way ; and I can't go in the parlor for
fear I shali muss that up, and now you
say I can't go up to my room. I know
a grand place where I can go," he ad
ded to himself ; "boys are never told
they are in "he way there, and we can
have lots of fun. I'll go down to Nile's
corner. I can smoke a cigar now as
well as any boy, if it did make me aw
ful sick the first time. They shall not
laugh at me again about it."
And so the careful housekeeper vir
tually drove her son from her door, to
hang about the steps and sit under the
broad inviting portico of the village
grog-shop. I 'or tland Tran script.
Sense and Woman's
Voting.
Jennie June, writing to the New
York World in relation to the Cook
Johnson scandal, says :
There is a silly recklessness about
the conduct of many young girls with
regard to married men, due partly to
their ignorance and partly to their va
nity, which mothers are principally re
sponsible for.
Let young girls be taught the truth
and loyalty io every woman as part of
their creed.
Let them understand that words and
attentions that can have no honorable
meaning are an insult, not a compli
ment ; and that the man who persists
in them takes it for granted that the
girl he addresses is vile as well as fool
ish. If a girl of eighteen is perfectly irre
sponsible, and don't know what men
mean when they make love to her and
ask her to run away with them, how
old ought she to be before she has a
vote, and is admitted to work with
men in machine shops and government
offices ?
S. B. A., stand up and answer ?
The truth is, if women are to be
good for any thing, they must be
taught that they are responsible for
themselves as soon as they have the
power to distinguish good from evil.
Men are not, and never can be, the
guardians of their purity they must
be their own.
A Princely Pleasantry.
Grace Greenwood, in her notes a
bout Washington, narrates the follow
ing, in which some of our readers may
find something funny :
"An amusing anecdote of a chance
encounter with royalty, is going about
just now. While the Trince and party
were en route from New York, a Wes
tern man got on the train at Baltimore
on the Junction, and by mistake made
his way into the special car, where he
quietly took a seat. Presently, seeing
a nice young man reading a paper, he
stepped up to the stranger, then lack
ing old Jack's loyal instinct, thus ac
costed the true Prince : "Have you
done with this paper, Sir ?" A stare of
astonishment was the only reply. A
gain he asks, raising his voice, "Have
you done with this paper. Sir ?" A
gain the same mute, amazed reply a
steady of Guelphic stare. It is highly
probably his highness had never be
fore been addressed after the plain
Republican style. At this point the
indignant traveler broke forth, "Why
in -and!" (words which I really can
not bring myself to write, though I re
member to have encountered them in
various religious publications,) "can't
you say yes, or no V 14 Well, yea, then,"
said the Prince, which was good natu
red, and sensible, but dreadfully un-Princely.-
ESJfc. In Washington when Prince
Arthur was there, tho English but
lers and coachmen, resident in the
city, gave a snpper to the Prince's
servants. One of the speeches was
mado by his iavorate valet, who
was enthusiastic in his praise of the
United States compared to Cana
da :
" 'Off his it," ho asked, "that
Ilenglishmen want to 'v hany
thing to do with such a blarsted cold
place where the people are French,
hand the beer's as weaic as water."
EQ- The' Providence Journal has
the following : "Late hoars, and
the other things that go with them,
are desired by fashion. There is no
use in talking about it. Health,
comfort, character, morals, are of
no account. Wo must do as other
people do, or be content to be no
body."
A Princely Pleasantry. A Railroad Haunted by the
Spirit of a Victim.
The Boston papers publish the fol
lowing strange but not well authentic
ated story :
"The engineer of a fraight train on
the Boston and Lowell railroad, which
leaves Boston about three o'clock in
the morning, has on several occasions
discovered a red light swinging at a
furious rate at the Woburn Station,
where the train stops for water. The
light would sometimes be in front and
sometimes in the rear of the train.
When the engineer would stop his
trains send some one to learn why the
signal to stop was made, the messeng
er would be greatly surprised to see
the light vanish. Investigation has
proved that no person was there with
a lantern, and tho braicemen and con
ductor concur also in having beheld
the phenomenon, which so far as now
known, is without visible cause.
Some laborers living on the line cf the
above station sny that a few mornings
since the were coming down the road
in a hand car, when they suddenly
heard the approach of an engineand
train, and knowing that no train was
due at that vicinity at that hour, they
became greatly frightened, nnd jump
ing out of the car, threw it off the
track to awat the train which they
thought was coming at a rapid pace
upon them, but which, it is needless to
say, did not come. The superstitious
regard the affair as a forewarning of
some disaster, while the spiritualists
have the ready theory that it is the
spirit of a man who wa3 killed therea
bout two years since."
A VICTIM OF RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT.
E.T.
We have he distressing intelli
gencethat Mrs. Hudson, wife of
Rev. Ilndson of the il. E. Church,
who resided in this city last fall,
came to her death in a very sudden
manner on Saturday night last. It
3eems that in comp'iny with her
husband she had been attending the
religious revivals now so common
in many places. It had been nolic
cd that for a few days nhe had act
cd very strangely the result of the
mental excitement under which she
labored. On Snnday morning a
bout ono o'clock, she got up, partly
dressed herself and left the house.
Her husband was soon apprised of
her absence and immediatoly went ;
in search, but as it was dark he
could not tell the direction she had
taken. Sho was not round uiiiil
nine o'clock on Sunday mornine,
when her body was discovered in
Oneleg creek, some considerable
distance from New Cumberland,
whero sho resided. How she came
to her death can only be inferred ;
but it seems probribte that it was
her own act. She leaves, we arc
sorry to say, a large family. New
Philadelphia (O ) Democra.
The Range of the Human Eye.
The range of the human eye may
b" judged of from a consideration
which gives ns at the same time a
srood idea of tho scope of animal
structure. Supposing that an indi
vidual of every known species were
to to take its fitand between the two
species that were respectivclj the
next larger and the next smaller
tUn ;i...lf tU.m.llo.t l-r,. -.. .
mnl at one extremity of the !;ne.
and iho largest standing at the oth
er ; nnd then suppose we were to
ak which creature occupied the
middle place, having as rnuny de
grees of size below it as above, and
as many above it as below, that
place would be found to be occu
pied by the common house-fly.
What a stupendous optical instru
ment most that be which, assisted
with a few brass tubes ard some
disks of glass, shall discern a cren
tnrn as much smaller than a fly, as
a fly is smaller than an elephant !
Little Things o Nature.
:
MODES OF WALKING.
Observing pe?son move slow;
their beads move alternately from
side to side, while they occasioally
stop and turn aronnd.
Careful persons lift their feet hish
and place thern down quietly ty
the side of the way.
Calculating persons- generally
.walk with their hands in their
pockets and their heads slightly
inclined.
Modest persons generally step
softly, tor fear of beine observed.
Timid persons often step off from
a sidewalk on -meeting another,
and always go around iustead of
stepping over it.
Wide-awake persons "toe out."
and have a long swing to their
arms, while their hands move about
miscellaneously.
Careless persons are forever stub"
bing iheir toes.
Lnzy persons scrape about loose
ly wi:h their heels, and ure first on
one ftido of the walk, tnee on the
other.
Yery strong minded persons have
their toe. directly in front of them,
and have a kinb of otamp move
ment. The Hamilton (Butler Co..)
Democrat says : A farmer lining a
short ditfrmco from that city made
a visit to his father-in-law, Valen
tine Weber, who reside 1 there.
The farmer had left his team hitch
cd to a post on thesido of tho street
and some time after dark he started
for home and found h's horses
lame. Upon examination he found
that their linubs had been cut in
various places by a sharp instru
ment. The incarnato devil who
could inflict such injury upon a
dumb brute is benoath the beast in
every sense, and is fit only to asso
ciate with howling dovils, chained
in eternal fire in the hottest part of
tho eternal regions. -
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